Angel Art

Today I have been working in my spare bedroom/office.  The room is (now) filled with angels and artwork.  Some of Michaela's art from different ages, some of her friends art, the beautiful stitchwork made by her lung recipient, other things that people have sent in her memory.  There was so much that it needed its own space. 

My favorite of her art pieces is the one she entitled 'Angels Cry Too' 

Angels Cry too

I always wonder how she knew?  When I was going through her artwork and her journals, doodles, and notes, I was amazed at how many pictures of angels I found.  For years she has been drawing Angels (alongside some of her darker work).  One of her Angel pictures is entitled Battle of the Gods and depicts the war between Angels that is written about in the Bible...a battle between good and evil that got Lucifer kicked out of heaven.  But in her picture it is a battle between beatiful females.   She drew this picture  in 2002.   No wings, but obviously Angels.  Wings were added by artists in about the 4th Century to distinguish them from other holy figures. 

Battle of the Gods

These pictures are just one part of my 'evidence' that on some level, she always knew she wouldn't be here long and that she knew where she came from.  Not consciously.  Deep inside.  She was more aware of the messages from God than most of us.  She could also pick people who needed her and love them unconditionally.  I've really never met anyone like that before.  There are other pieces of 'evidence' that I may share with time.  Writings that seem to indicate a 'knowing'.  Things that she said to me, things that I laughed off, that came absolutely true.  But this entry is about Angels and art, so here is another one.

I'm not sure exactly what this one is depicting.  She drew it when she was younger.  Middle school I think.  It isn't dated anywhere I can see, but the drawing skills aren't as well developed as in some of her other art.  It appears to me that the Angel is pouring water into the stream, not taking water out of it.

This last picture I am going to share today is not an Angel at all by appearance.  But yet another reference to Christianity and its history that seemed to be on her mind and in her art, but not necessarily on her tongue.  Perhaps she really did believe that actions were all that matter.  But she struggled with her faith as much as anybody else does, or even more.  Because she (like Jesus) did not agree with all of the dogma of organized religion, yet she gave of herself in a way that most self-proclaimed Christians could take a huge lesson from.

Persecution of the Christians

I don't know why she drew these things.  Just as I don't know why she was the happiest unhappy person on earth.  But maybe as we blog along we will discover something.